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February 21, 2013
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7:21 PM | Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and HERVs
Viruses. Apparently there are quite a lot of them on this old rock we call home and I've started to become quite interested in some of them, or at least how we as a species have, and continue to interact with them down the ages.I must start by thanking Natasa for bringing me into contact with the paper by Kenny De Meirleir and colleagues* (open-access) looking at human endogenous retrovirus (HERV) expression in a small cohort of patients diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). I'm […]
KENNY L. DE MEIRLEIR, SVETLANA F. KHAIBOULLINA, MARC FRÉMONT, JAN HULSTAERT, ALBERT A. RIZVANOV, ANDRÁS PALOTÁS & VINCENT C. LOMBARDI (2013). Plasmacytoid dendritic cells in the duodenum of individuals diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis are uniquely immunoreactive to antibodies to human endogenous retroviral proteins, In Vivo, 27 (2) 177-187. Other: Link
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September 15, 2012
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Fancy a beer son? @Lucasfilm"Your destiny lies with me Skywalker". So said Darth Vader as he tried his very best to work on his father-son relationship skills (shortly after chopping off his son's hand).I don't necessarily see it as my destiny to keep talking about the immune system in connection to autism and other conditions but there was perhaps an air of inevitability that I would eventually end up talking about the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and autism. Indeed two quite recent […]
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